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Maira Asif Graduation – May 2024

From left-to-right: Maira Asif and T.G. Schurr

Maira completed her B.A. at Penn and was an Anthropology major. She completed a senior thesis entitled “Mental Health in the Age of Social Media: The Role of Digital Aesthetics and Displays of Vulnerability in the Experience of Women of Color”

Nayan Shankaran Lab Internship 2021-24

During his high school studies at The Episcopal Academy in Newtown Square, PA, Nayan worked on Genographic Project studies focused on Puerto Rico and Guam.

Volney Friedrich Defense May 2023

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Dissertation: “Mitochondrial Background in HPV Positive Individuals from the Philadelphia Area”

Alexandra Kralick Defense April 2023

From left-to-right: Shriya Amin, Volney Friedrich, Raquel Fleskes, T.G, Schurr, Alexandra Kralick, Clare Super, Katey Mari and Caitlin O'Connell.

Dissertation: “Orangutan Osteobiography: Skeletal Morphology and Flanging in Pongo spp."

Elizabeth Oakley Defense September 2022

From left-to-right: Theodore Schurr, Elizabeth Oakley, Marge Bruchac, and Megan Kassabaum

Dissertation: “Investigating the Cultural Domains of Science in U.S. Museums: How Museums Sell ‘Science’ and Spark Curiosity”

Aylar Abdolahzedah Defense August 2022

From left-to-right: Theodore Schurr, Dennis Sandgathe (top), Shannon McPherson (bottom), Aylar Abdolahzedah, Deborah Olszewski.

Dissertation: “Burned Flint: Indirect Evidence of Fire Use for Understanding Neandertal’s Behavioral Variability in Using Fire in Late Pleistocene Europe”

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Raquel Fleskes Defense May 2021

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Dissertation: "Archaeo-Genomics of 17th and 18th Century Eastern North America: Insights into European Colonization and The African Diaspora"

Schurr Christmas Party 2019

Penn Biological Anthropology and Archaeology Students. From left-to-right: Seated: Raquel Fleskes, Lizzie Oakley, Alexandra Kralick, Clare Super, Aisha Chugtai, Rachel Dickerson, Katey Mari. Standing: Paul Mitchell, Kevin Burke, Aylar Abdolahzedah.

Schurr Lab Team 2012

 Lab members from left-to-right: Seated: Akshay Walia, Miguel Vilar; Standing: Amanda Owings, Jill Gaieski, Meagan Rubel, Haleigh Zillges, Rosa Zedek, Ryan Zahalka, Theodore Schurr. Photo taken at the Ben Franklin sculpture at Locus Walk on the Penn campus.

Matthew Dulik PhD Defense 2012

Newly minted Dr. Matthew Dulik and Theodore Schurr, Department of Anthropology, May 2012

Dissertation: “A Molecular Anthropological Study of Altaian Histories Utilizing Population Genetics and Phylogeography”

Schurr Lab Team 2011

From left-to-right: T.G. Schurr, Matthew Dulik, Ayken Askapuli, Akiva Sanders, Amanda Owings, Rachel Gittelman, Lydia Gau, Halleigh Zillges, Miguel Vilar, Paul Babb. Photo taken in the Chinese Rotunda, Penn Museum.

Genographic Team 2011

From left-to-right: Akshay Walia, Amanda Owings, Jill Gaieski, Theodore Schurr, Akiva Sanders, and Miguel Vilar. Photo taken in the Mesoamerican Gallery of the Penn Museum.

Schurr Lab Team 2009

From left-to-right: Front: Lydia Gau, XXXXX; Back: John Lindo, Rachel Gittelman, Amanda Owings, Paul Babb, Annick McIntosh. Photo taken in the Goddard Lab Building.

Schurr Lab Team 2005

From left-to-right: Seated: Aslihan Sen, Athma Pai, Theodore Schurr; Standing: Sergey Zhadanov, Samara Rubinstein, Matthew Dulik, Omer Gokcumen, XXXXXXXX, and Patricia Bermudez. Photo taken in the Goddard Labs Building.

Penn Anthropology Undergraduate Graduation 2004

From left-to-right: Maggie Cocca, T.G. Schurr, Nisha Mehta

Both Maggie and Nishi worked on the Old Believers study and were co-authors on the paper summarizing the analysis of mtDNA variation in this population: Rubinstein S, Dulik MC, Gokcumen O, Zhadanov SI, Osipova LP, Mehta N, Cocca MF, Gubina M, Posukh O, Schurr TG. 2008. Russian Old Believers: Genetic consequences of their persecution and exile, as shown by mitochondrial DNA evidence. Hum Biol 80(3):203-238.